Haldia Government College

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POST GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY

The Department of Geography in Haldia Government College enjoys a heritage status in terms of its academic activities. The Department started in 1988 and was the first UG department under Vidyasagar University. Since its inception the department has produced many talented students who held prestigious positions in different field. From 2015 the department started post-graduate course under the affiliation to Vidyasagar University. The department is equipped with all the necessary instruments to develop field level expertise among the students. The department has a seminar library packed with good collection of useful books, two Geographical Information System (GIS) laboratory, a soil laboratory. This is one of the best equipped departments to serve the students. Teachers provide lectures, handouts and copies of other necessary study materials.

Total number of Class room: 5
ICT enabled class room: 1
Total number of LCD Projector: 4
Computer Lab and Software:
The Department has two well-furnished computer laboratories. Details of these laboratories are —
     Number of Computer : 19
     Internet facility
     Arc GIS Software
     Slide Projector
     Over- head projector
Soil and Water Laboratories:
The department offers a soil-water laboratories equipped with soil-water analysing instruments —
     Soil testing kit
     Soil water analysis kit (7 parameters)
     Pan Evaporimeter
     Shieve Shaker Manual
     Shieve shaker automatic
     Distilled water plant
     Refrigerator
     Pan Balance
     Digital Balance
Seminar Library: The Department has a seminar library packed with near about 6000 useful books for UG and PG students.

Details of Surveying Instruments

Serial No.	Name of the Instruments	Number of Instruments
1	Total Station	1
2	Transit Theodolite	16
3	Digital Theodolite	10
4	Dumpy Level	16
5	Prismatic Compass	24
6	Clinometer	4
7	Abney Level	4
8	Current Meter	1
9	Altimeter	2
10	Barometer	5
11	Hygrometer	8
12	Air Quality Meter	2
13	Pentagraph	2
14	Annimometer	1
15	Rotameter	26
16	Plane Table	1
17	Topographical Sheet	265
18	Mirror Stereoscope	8
19	Pocket Stereoscope	9
20	Thermometer	3

•Others The department also has the sufficient numbers of following associated equipments Stereoscope

*Satellite Images
*Rock and Minerals box
*Pedometer
*Tape
*Calculator
*Aluminium staff
*Wooden Staff
*Board pin
*Wooden Compass
*Wooden Scale
*Extension bar with compass
*Bowpen Compass
*Drawing box
*Spring driver
*Digital Scale
*Double roller
*Protector
*Pensil compass
*Diagonal scale
*Tracing paper
*Guide map
*Aerial photo

Seminars/Conferences/Webinars/Workshops organised

International Webinars on Disaster risk reduction, resilience and sustainability
Date	Topic of the lecture	Resource person
28.08.2021	Rural community perspective in Disaster Management: Response to risk reduction and Resilience	Prof. Jayant Kumar Routray, Professor Emeritus, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
28.08.2021	Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through Disaster Risk Reduction	Prof. Narayan Chandra Jana, Professor, Department of Geography, The Burdwan University